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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE RELATION OF THE STATES TO THE UNITED STATES AND TO EACH OTHER.
1. The sanction of the Constitution.
2. The indissolubility of the Union.
3. The autonomy of the states.
4. The delegated character and limited powers of the government of the
United States.
5. The Federal supremacy.
6. The restraints upon the states.
7. The force and effect of the preamble to the Constitution.
CHAPTER II.
THE IMPLIED POWERS.
8. The necessity of their existence.
9. Their constitutional recognition.
10. The test of the relation of the means to the end.
11. Illustrations of the exercise of the implied powers.
12. The legal tender question.
13. The possible scope of the legal tender cases as authorities.
CHAPTER III.
TAXATION.
14. Taxation defined and limited.
15. Taxation by the United States.
16. Direct taxation.
17. The requirement of uniformity.
18. Exemption of state agencies from taxation by the United States.
19. Charges which are not taxes exempt from constitutional restraints.
20. Taxation by the states.
21. The expressed restraints upon state taxation.
22. The implied restraint upon state taxation resulting from the federal
supremacy.
23. Taxation of national banks.
24. State taxation as affected by the prohibition of the impairment of the
obligation of contracts.
25. State taxation as affected by the grant to Congress of the power of
regulating commerce.
CHAPTER IV.
THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE.
26. The constitutional provisions.
27. The history of the commercial clause.
28. Commerce defined.
29. The regulation of commerce defined.
30. The general distinction between the powers of the United States and
of the states over commerce.
31. Navigable waters.
32. Title to the soil under navigable waters.
33. The regulation of navigation.
34. The regulation of subjects of commerce.
35. The taxation of ships.
36. Duties on tonnage.
37. The taxation of the water transportation of passengers.
38. The taxation of goods in interstate commerce.
39. Discriminating taxation against products and manufactures of other
states.
40. The taxation of exports by the United States.
41. State taxation of imports and exports, and inspection laws.
42. Improvements of navigation.
43. Dams and bridges.
44. Ferries.
45. Wharves and piers.
46. Pilotage.
47. Quarantine and sanitary regulations.
48. Port dues.
49. Port regulations.
50. Preferences of ports.
51. Interstate railway transportation.
52. Railway tolls.
53. The police regulation of railways.
54. State taxation of interstate transportation by railways.
55. Telegraphs.
56. Commerce with the Indian tribes.
CHAPTER V.
THE IMPAIRMENT OF THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS.
57. The prohibition affects only laws passed by states.
58. The term "law" defined.
59. Judgments of state courts not conclusive either as to the non existence
or non-impairment, of contracts.
60. The obligation of a contract defined.
61. Legislation as to remedies.
62. The term "contracts" defined.
63. State insolvent laws.
64. Judgments as contracts.
65. Municipal taxation.
66. History of the prohibition.
67. State grants.
68. Express contracts of exemption from taxation.
69. Express grants of peculiar privileges.
70. Contracts between a state and its political subdivisions.
71. Implied contracts in charters of incorporation.
72. Implied corporate exemption from taxation.
73. Implied grants of peculiar privileges.
74. Implied exemption from the operation of the police power.
75. Implied contracts as to matters of public concern.
76. The withdrawal by a state of its consent to be sued.
77. The force and effect of the prohibition as construed by the Supreme
Court.
CHAPTER VI.
EX POST FACTO LAWS AND BILLS OF ATTAINDER.
78. The constitutional provisions.
79. The distinction between retrospective and ex post facto laws.
80. Ex post facto laws defined.
81. Illustrations of ex post facto laws.
82. Illustrations of laws which are not ex post facto.
83. Bills of attainder and bills of pains and penalties.
CHAPTER VII.
THE PROHIBITION OF STATE BILLS OF CREDIT.
84. Bills of credit defined.
85. What are, and what are not, bills of credit.
CHAPTER VIII.
STATE COMPACTS.
86. What compacts are permitted, and what are forbidden.
CHAPTER IX.
FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE.
87. The constitutional provision.
88. The concurrent jurisdiction of the federal and state courts.
CHAPTER X.
THE JUDICIAL POWER.
89. The necessity for the existence of a judicial department of the United
States.
90. The constitutional provisions.
91. The terms of the grant of federal jurisdiction.
92. The exclusive jurisdiction.
93. The original jurisdiction.
94. Removal of causes from state courts to the courts of the United States.
95. The appellate and supervisory jurisdiction.
96. The requisites of a judicial case.
97. Courts-martial.
98. Impeachment.
99. The judicial construction of the Constitution.
100. The XI Amendment.
101. Section 2 of Article III of the Constitution, and the IV Amendment.
102. The V Amendment.
103. The VI Amendment.
104. The VII Amendment.
105. The exemption of federal process from state control.
106. Limitation of federal process by the reserved rights of the states.
107. The limitations of state jurisdiction and process by the federal
108. The rule as to conflict of jurisdiction.
109. The XIV Amendment as affecting state jurisdiction.
110. The effect of Section 1 of Article IV of the Constitution.
CHAPTER XI.
RIGHTS OF PERSON AND OF PROPERTY.
111. Citizenship of the United States.
112. Citizenship of a state.